Have you ever busted out laughing at a truly inappropriate time?
My husbands mother died, she was 91 and though everyone was deeply saddened, no one was surprised. She had been ill for sometime and had lived a long and fruitful life.
So, we all went to say our goodbyes at her wake. Once we did the initial viewing some of us went into the lounge room to take a break. I was standing in the room admiring the lovely couches, grandfather clock and the beautiful artwork on the wall when my eyes were met with the strangest sight. On the wall next to a curio cabinet filled with pretty things was a sign that said
"Gift Certificates Available"
Well, I could hardly contain my laughter but I tried to so it became one of those weezy laughs and tears were rolling down my face. My husbands sister came over and said "Are you ok?" I pointed to the sign and she started busting out laughing too. Now I began hysterically laughing, I could no longer hold my back my laughter and I am a real cackler. Now the whole family one by one came over and each saw the sign and pretty soon the room was full of people just "dying" and doubled over with hysteria. Tissues came out not for tears of sorrow but for tears from comedic relief.
The funeral director came over and looked puzzled. "What is so funny?" I pointed to the sign and I said "What kind of funeral home gives gift certificates" "I mean, do you sell them to old customers to get new customers?" He said "No, that's for the gift shop downstairs" I said "Well that's just as creepy. Who would give someone a gift certificate to someone for a gift shop in a funeral home?"
"I never thought of it that way" he replied.
I of course went down to the gift shop and bought myself a little angel figurine. When I was paying they gave me a free gift. It was one of those clips for like a potato chip bag to keep them fresh once opened and it had a magnet on the back so you can put it on your refrigerator when not in use.
On the clip was printed
Branch Funeral Home
Funerals and Cremations
190 E. Main St
Smithtown, NY
631-724-9500
Now that's what I call shrewd advertisement!! Every time I use this clip I will think of that day and who knows, I might give my sister in law a creepy gift certificate for her birthday for that cute gift shop.
Anyone have stories of laughing at unusual moments or even just funny stories?
Wow, you guys have some great stories. You guys added much fun to my day
Curious 1- I loved the Mary Tyler Moore show! Unfortunately, I didn't see that episode but I did see the Carol Burnett episode when she was Scarlett from "Gone with the Wind" when she put the curtains on complete with the curtain rod on as a dress. That was just too hilarious. Thanks for the memories.
Me - LOL A load of tissues falling out of a bra, what a classic.
Rosebud - Loved your story. Sounds like something from a comedy show.
mswnana - Wow, and I thought "almost" walking into the mens room was embarrassing. The womens lib comment was really sharp.
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Another funeral home story. My rich uncle died and he had no kids so every relative you can imagine was at the wake and all thinking the same thing: I wonder how much money he had and did he leave me any?I was sitting next to my brother when he started saying this………He’s dead, he’s dead, so where’s the friggin bread? We burst out laughing and it was definitely frowned upon by our parents.
BTW, we were teenagers at the time.
i guess when my friend was crying cuz her phone got taken away in class and everyone was silent and i just started laughing at her.
Yeah
I was taking a piss in a public restromm, my friend came next to me and took a piss in the next urinal and i glanced over and looked at his penis and I busted out laughing, he had a 3inch baby dick. He use to brag that chicks love him and black men envy him. Hahahahaha. His new nickname is baby pee pee.
Yes my Mum introduced me to some distant relative of mine, an old woman ,she put her arms out to give me a hug and somehow a load of tissues came flying out of her bra and she didnt even notice. Myself and my Mum just went completely hysterical and could not stop laughing and we barely even knew the woman. She probably thought we were the most disrespectful people she ever met in her life. Then we started coughing to make it seem like we werent laughing and she had no idea what was going on but I just couldnt help it cos it was sooooo funny!
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Well, that made me laugh!
I was in the World of Clothing with my daughters and my husband and went to the restroom. Both the men and women’s restrooms were side by side. I walked into the men’s restroom by mistake. All the men were standing with their backs to me, of course, and I did not want to bolt for the door, so thought I would walk into the one stall there and wait until they all were gone. Unfortunately, the stall was locked, so there I was. I had to turn around and walk back out the way I came in. The men did not say a word, but I guess they thought women’s liberation had gone a little too far. When I came out, my husband said, "I wondered why you went into the men’s restroom," just as if it was normal! Then I busted out laughing!
I worked with an older couple and a dozen other people one summer about 17 years ago. The man was OK, he was funny and a cut-up and always in a good mood but his wife was rather snobby and had an attitude. We ate lunch in a large break-room and one day he rattled his tea glass for her to refill it for him. She looked over at him and said "Kiss my butt!" and he just grinned and said "Move your nose and I will."
I never heard that one before and laughed out loud before I thought about it, shouldn’t encourage a married couple to fuss, especially with a wife like that.
I hope that none of my relatives are reading this. Yes, I did laugh uncontrollably at a cousin’s wedding several years ago. The setting was beautiful, a Virginia historical plantation about halfway between Richmond and Williamsburg. There wers 150 year old magnolias and dogwoods and the river was in the background.
The bridesmaids wore Gone With the Wind hoop skirts in lavender complete with excessive ruffles and very large hats. Instead of bouquets, they carried lacy umbrellas to protect their fair skin from the harsh Virginia sun.
Now you must understand that the bride and the groom were both very obese, but that didn’t influence their attire at all. The groom wore white from top to toe with the exception of a pink bow tie and the biggest pink cummerbund I’ve ever seen. The bride wore a huge hoop skirt just as her bridesmaids, except hers was beaded and ruffled and flowered. She also wore a huge hat.
Now the ceremony was fairly ordinary until the groom picked up his guitar. The couple moved to a stand microphone, the groom strummed the guitar, and they began to sing to one another. They sang the Paul and Paula song as they gazed into one another’s eyes, except they substituted their own names as they sang: "Hey Homer. I want to marry you." "Hey, Verna, I want to marry you too." and so on. At the end of the song, they were pronounced husband and wife.
My husband had started chuckling when the groom came out. As the ceremony progressed, his little chuckles made me start laughing, the silent kind of laughing that makes your shoulders jump up and down and your stomach hurt. By the time the singing started, i was in so much pain that I didn’t know if I’d be able to make it without bursting into big guffaws. I was holding my hand tightly over my mouth.
As soon as the ceremony was over, we literally ran to the car and laughed until we were almost sick. Then we composed ourselves and walked back to the reception.
Just started laughing the question reminded me of BoBo the clown, a Mary Tyler Moore skit. She was at the clowns funeral and could not stop laughing. If you have not seen it, you have missed one of the funniest shows ever, along with Carol Burnett and her Scarlett moment, just something I saw in the window and had to have. Thanks for the memory, I would have cracked up in your place also.
yes i was on the train to work one day, and the dream i had the night before, had me in stitches. and i just busted out laughing and people was looking at me like i was nuts.
My sis and I toured the St. Louis waterfront and hungry and tired, we went into the famed Spaghetti Factory for dinner. This place was so packed with a long waiting list, so we went to lounge/waiting area, where it was also so packed there was nowhere to even sit.
After a few drinks on empty stomachs and catching some amusing conversations in the overcrowded lounge, we were finally seated in the middle of the huge dining room on risen platform with about 8 tables and brass rails along the edges.
All the wait persons were extremely busy and again we were waiting, but this time recalling some funny incidents and making fun of our predicament, we started to laugh…….which escalated into real bend over, tear flowing, belly hurting , hyena shrieks.
We could not stop. There had to be at least 70 tables in there, all full, waiters scurrying around like bees, and us in the center on a raised platform. EVERYBODY was looking at us with nothing less than scorn – which made us laugh even harder with our embarrassment. I am laughing now recalling this.
The meal was excellent, by the way, when we finally ordered and we seen the sighs of relief from the staff when we were leaving. HAHAHAHA
hahahah omg that so funny thank you so much ladies and gentlemen for all funny stories that you have specially our host thank you and also you have a nice describe for the story, you made it so entresting to follow its like watching a movie
i have story like that its short one about (weezy laughs)
that happend long time ago my friends and I we went to pray togothar we sat in same line
listening to the speach. and the man who giving the speach he have this skweeky voice and he was trying to make it beatiful ,nothing that so funny we just looked at each other just a light smaill from all of us until now but its just happend one of us gave it this weezy laugh and that was enough to made us cover our mouth with our hands trying to hid this moment of weezy laugh but didnt work that much any way we managed to hid it, until the speaker wana say amen and he have to say it loudly so all people can hear him his amen was like that (eeeeeeemeeeeeen ) omg so skweky funny we couldn’t hold our self and we have to repeat after him, but our amen was new one doesn’t exist of all religions god made… was like that AAAA aaaaAAAAAHAHAHHHAHaaAaaAaamMMMMeeEEEeEeeeeeeEn hahaHAHAHAhahaHAHA that was our amen after that we vanished we didnt came back at all
and you can watch this clip he have same our stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXf3wx5nPXU&feature=related
yes i have and i am terribly shamed of myself for doing this. it was at a funeral of a friend and neighbor of many many years and i do not know why this happened or what caused but, it still bothers me after many years. i have no explanations.